Monday, May 4, 2009

On this day almost 40 years ago, the illusion that government can not turn on its citizens, even their children, was violently dispelled.

Nixon's imperial presidency created the situation, but he would not be the last. George W. Bush and company proved that.

The current resident of the White House, though he be a constitutional legal scholar, is not making a serious effort to reform the office, to preclude a successor's untoward ambitions. He continues to embrace many of the anti-constitutional devices that characterized his predecessor.

So let us not forget how badly things can go.

"A time it wasIt was a timeA time of innocenceA time of confidences

Long ago it must beI have a photographPreserve your memoriesThey're all that's left you